diff --git a/requests/packages/__init__.py b/requests/packages/__init__.py
index d62c4b71..a1592748 100644
--- a/requests/packages/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/packages/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
+import sys
 
-from . import urllib3
+try:
+    from . import urllib3
+except ImportError:
+    import urllib3
+    sys.modules['%s.urllib3' % __name__] = urllib3
+
+try:
+    from . import chardet
+except ImportError:
+    import chardet
+    sys.modules['%s.chardet' % __name__] = chardet